Of whatever colour the ray of the flower has been, in 
the species which have fallen under our notice, the disk 
' has uniformly been of a deep shining blackish brown, pre- 
vious to the complete expansion of the florets; when it 
becomes of a dusky opague green. The first appearance is 
produced by a tesselated surface formed of small blackish 
flat protuberances at the backs of the segments of each 
floret; these lie uppermost before expansion, when the 
whole plane is gradually broken up by the extrusion of the 
stigmas, and the backs of the segments being reversed by 
the unfolding of the limb, the inner surface comes in view 
in their place. 
In the present species the leaves are several, all radical, 
generally lyrate, one or two of the inmost entire with an 
ovately lanceolate blade, covered beneath by a white cots- 
tony pubescence; the short pile on the upper side is more 
easily perceived by the feel than sight, and scarcely db- 
stures the green colour of the leaf. Scapes or peduncles 
from six inches to a foot high, radical, one-flowered, vil- 
lous. .Flomers nearly three inches across; ray white on the 
inside with a purple black base, on the outside deep purple. 
The pappus of the seed consists of oblong obtuse palem or 
chafís piaced in a single series. | 
. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; from whence it was 
introduced by the late Mr. Masson in 1794. Like the rest 
of its congeners requires to be sheltered in the greenhouse; 
and planted in a mixture of peat-earth and hazel-loam. 
Easily propagated by suckers. Blooms from May to July. 
"The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee 
and Kennedy at Hammersmith. 
. & A floret of the ray and germen. b The same of the disk. c The calyx 
dissected vertically, to show the paleaceous or chaffy plume of the re+ 
€eptacle of the flower, as it appears when deprived of the florets. 
